Chapter 338

These salt merchants were rich and super rich, which caused the covetous hearts of Liu Bu and Zheng Xining's parents-in-law. They didn't see each other for months. Naturally, they came first, and then talked about these salt merchants.

The more they talked, the more excited they became. They could not help but score twice and make another shot.

In fact, both of them are extremely greedy people. When they saw that the salt merchants were so rich, they all coveted. As a result, they just tried to test each other's intentions immediately, and could not help laughing at each other. This is the soul couple.

Zheng zining suggested, "since you are the chief soldier of Fengyang, you can't let them send you away with three cores and two dates."

Liu Buhe said, "this is inevitable. When I come here, I naturally want to take a share in this rich place. These people invite me to drink and eat just to bribe me. How can I be easily fooled? The points that should be given to me can't be less. They can only be more than expected. If they are less, they can't be spared. "

Zheng zining likes to hear this.

Zheng zining said: "compared with the market controlled by these salt merchants, they just give you enough ice and charcoal. They can't get much, but some leftovers from others. If our Liu family army wants to expand, tens of thousands of people are not enough. It's better to control it at about 50000“

The implication is obvious, that is, if the Liu family wants to expand its power, it must expand its army, and it must have sufficient money and food.

Everyone knows that we can fight only after we have money and food.

However, with the wealth of the Liu family, it is not easy to raise so many soldiers and horses, and they implement the professional military system with high welfare, which makes them feel embarrassed. They are all in charge of soldiers, and they are also in charge of thousands of people. They all understand that like them now, they can be called retreat if they don't advance. If they don't If you can rise up and expand yourself, you will shrink back step by step.

In particular, Liu Bu knew that the Ming Dynasty was about to perish. If they could not strive for the greatest interests and obtain more territory when the Ming Dynasty perished, they would die without a place to bury. You know, the next thing that came was that the Manchus ruled China, and the Manchus were able to rule China. With their barbaric killing methods, he used only one method for the Han people It's a means of killing. If you don't accept the killing, you'll kill until you take it.

We should know that Liu Bu will not sit idly by and ignore their atrocities in any case. He will rise up and fight with each other to the end. In this case, it is very necessary to have a strong army. Under this great purpose, he will expand the army at all costs and everyone will stop it In front of him, he eradicates and kicks one by one. No matter who the other party is, he will kick him down.

Because Liu Bu knows that this is not the time to pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality. If he still holds the set of benevolence, righteousness and morality, he is expected to become a prisoner under the sword furnace and let the other party kill them.

If they don't take the opportunity to expand their army and make themselves strong, Daming may perish in ten years. Whether they can survive ten years is a problem, because after next year, JianNu will enter the customs in a large scale and sweep the whole Shandong Province. Even Jinan government will be broken by them and sweep the East three government offices. In this case, they don't have a strong army If the team resists JianNu, it is estimated that JianNu will annihilate them by the way.

In the original version, JianNu only swept the area of Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture and did not attack Dengzhou. That's because Dengzhou has become a white land and there is no value for them to fight. However, the difference now is that the East three houses have been unified and become incomparably powerful. Once JianNu attacks Shandong, the East three houses will be taken.

Therefore, he Liu Bu did not have any illusions. Once JianNu attacked the Central Plains on a large scale, he would certainly deal with the three East houses where the Liu family was located and the Liu family. There was no objection to this.

Therefore, Liu Bu knows that he doesn't have much time for him, only half a year. If he doesn't make good use of this half a year to prepare enough troops, money and food, when JianNu hits the door, they will be destroyed.

So Liu Bu was a little anxious and wanted to rob more gold and silver, get more money and food and expand his army at all costs. You know, there is only one way for him to expand his army, that is, the more money, the more the army.

This can be described as fighting a war is fighting a comprehensive national strength. Fighting a war is fighting money, grain or artillery. As long as he has enough money Niang, he can maintain his strong army. As long as his Liu family's Liu family army is still there, JianNu wants to sweep across the Central Plains and Shandong, it won't be so easy.

Sometimes Liu Bu is indignant. Why should I lead the army to fight rogue bandits here and build slaves there, and live a hard life, but these salt merchants do nothing, but can enjoy their glory and wealth. They eat the best food and play with the best women. What is the reason? Is it because they are only moths who can exploit policy loopholes, and I Liu Bu Is it just a natural labor?

Especially after Liu Bu had these extreme ideas, he had more ideas. He would not be happy if he did not deal with these salt merchants.

Zheng zining had a whim. He said, "can we learn your move in Jimo?"

Liu Bu's move of looting Jimo was wonderful for the Liu family. He not only defeated the enemy, but also obtained a lot of money and food, which made them famous. Until now, this is also a pending case. Except for those who have intentions, many people don't know that this is what the Liu family army did.

Liu bu also regarded this war as a proud war in his life. He often bragged in front of his wife.

Liu Bu said, "no! I'm the chief soldier of Fengyang. The imperial court will only ask me what happened to Yangzhou. If I was fine in Fengyang before, and now I'm in charge of the whole place under the governor of Fengyang, the imperial court can only ask me what happened. Hong Chengchou and others can't wait to find me short."

Zheng zining frowned and said, "what should I do? I can't rob? I'm afraid I'll hurt you if I do it secretly. These salt merchants are very rich. People with a lot of money have no place to spend. We Liu Jiajun should help them."

Liu Bu thought of all kinds of other hobbies of these salt merchants and all kinds of other ways to make money. He really felt that these local tyrants were too rich and had too much money. They didn't know how to spend. They also had the responsibility and obligation to teach them how to spend.

This money should be spent on Liu Jiajun, so that Liu Jiajun can equip more troops, buy more artillery and fire guns, make the army stronger, and then fight JianNu to eliminate this nomadic nation that threatened the security of the Central Plains imperial dynasty.

Many of Liu Bu's current plans are aimed at building slaves. As long as this nomadic nation safe for the Central Plains imperial dynasty is eliminated, the world of the Han family will not be lost. Maybe Daming will still lose it to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong or another rebel leader, but it's better than falling into the hands of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

Liu Bu, this is a typical example. He would rather be a domestic slave than a friend. He would rather rot the meat in the pot than give it to these outsiders.

It is because Liu Bu has these ideas that he is more eager to get more money so that he can implement this great ideal. As one of Liu Jiajun's top giants, he also has the right to formulate Liu Jiajun's policies. For example, if he wanted to expand the army in the past, he must let his father nod. Why should his father nod? Because the financial power rests with Liu Yuanqiao.

Although Liu Yuanqiao can be called a man of great talent and foresight, he inevitably has the limitations of the times in many places. In some places, he is not as good as Liu bu.

So in this case, Liu Bu decided to do it alone. Anyway, as long as he did it, his father had no reason to object.

So Liu Bu decided to get another large sum of money to expand the army again anyway. You know, they got a lot of money and food from Zhang Xianzhong. These money and food also filled up their previous deficit. They just filled up the previous hole, but they should expand their army again and expand more than half of its scale, This is impossible and not enough.

Liu Buhe has his plan, that is, to expand the army on a large scale, and there are so many people to support him. Therefore, even if his Liu family has gone all out to resume business and draw benefits from the canal, it is far from enough to keep them strong and expanding, so he must think of more ways, More reasons to get more money.

Originally, as a transgressor, he wanted to make money. He had many ways and was very wild. But since he came to Yangzhou and saw that these salt merchants in Yangzhou were so powerful, his way became simple and direct. Is there anything in the world faster than robbing money?

It is estimated that these salt merchants will regret it very much. They tried hard to curry favor with Liu Bu, a powerful man, and wanted to drag him into the water and collude with themselves. Who knows what they didn't expect is that the other party was not dragged into the water and colluded with him. They also coveted him and wanted to rob them of their money.

If these salt merchants knew that Liu Bu had this idea, it was estimated that they would have an idea of a day old dog. They would think that even if I used the money to buy meat and feed the dog, it would be better to invite Liu Bu to dinner.

Liu Bu had these ideas, which coincided with Zheng zining, but after they talked for a long time, they didn't think of an effective way to do it.

You know, unless they are now a direct rebellion, if they dare not raise troops to revolt, they dare to loot Yangzhou. It is estimated that it must be a great crime to kill the nine ethnic groups and put to death late.

Whether Liu Bu or Zheng zining, although they are ambitious and courageous, they do not have the heart to rebel or the courage to rebel against Daming, which makes them worry about it all at once.